Rating for experience spending a night at Mapi Gardens (not their restaurant food): 🚂 Mapi Gardens = near the train station (which is convenient! but) it was harder to sleep at night due to noise (of trains and at times foot traffic) 🌟 we booked a night through Booking.com, thinking we already paid with card—we were asked to pay when we arrived and didn’t expect it; it was a 10% upcharge to pay with card (so cash is better if you have it).
pros: GREAT shower (warm water & lots of it), nice beds, capacity to check in bags for many hours after your...
Read moreBe aware, the price that you book it for and the price they charge you at the hotel is different!
They told us that if want to pay in local currency (soles) - it will be 10% extra and if we want to pay by card - 15% extra. They offered us only to pay in Dollars, which we did not have in PERU. And the receptionist basically admitted that it's a scam that they are running.
Rooms are not great, lacks basic necessities and are very noisy. Breakfast was really poor as well. Good...
Read morewarning to other travelers. This is essentially a hostel on top of a bar. None of my family slept and we had a 6 am tour the next day. At 9 pm on a Sunday we came back from dinner and were told the music event downstairs would be over in an hour. It wasn’t done until 4 am. That in addition to the razor thin walls made for poor sleeping conditions. I would recommend that you look elsewhere if you...
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